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Katherine Wu
Chief Operating Officer at ENS Labs Ltd
New York, New York
Overview
Katherine Wu is the Chief Operating Officer at ENS Labs and a Venture Partner at Archetype, with a background in law and extensive experience in the blockchain and crypto space. Notable highlights include serving as a Research Fellow at the Crypto Council for Innovation and holding positions at Coinbase and Messari, showcasing expertise in venture capital and business development within the industry.
Work Experience
Chief Operating Officer
2024 - Current
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a decentralized, open, and expandable naming system that interacts with the Ethereum blockchain. ENS Labs is responsible for the core software development of ENS.
Venture Partner
2022
Archetype is an early stage crypto VC accelerating the decentralized future https://www.archetype.fund/
Archetype is a venture firm focused on backing the next generation of crypto founders and accelerating the decentralized future.
Research Fellow
2022 - 2024
The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) is a global alliance of crypto industry leaders with a mission to demonstrate the transformational promise of crypto and communicate its benefits to policymakers, regulators, and people around the globe. https://cryptoforinnovation.org/
Crypto Council for Innovation supports governments and institutions through advice and insights on financial inclusive regulation.
Ventures - Senior Deal Lead
2021 - 2022
Led and scaled the Coinbase Ventures deal team in 2021-2022, achieving a record-breaking year of~150 deals, with ~100 deals in Q3 and Q4 of 2021. Highlights during my tenure: ** https://blog.coinbase.com/reflecting-on-coinbase-ventures-record-year-in-2021-27be03f4f006 ** https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-ventures-2021-q3-activity-and-takeaways-950e5ff70370 https://www.coinbase.com/ventures Also created and co-hosted the Coinbase podcast, “Around the Block”. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0zEUTVaoPOyNcYavOkwIXsVHtU6839jC
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
Principal, Investment Team
2019 - 2021
Notation is a "first check" (pre-seed) venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology companies that combine software and data in novel ways in order to create a fundamentally better experience for customers. Select investments (lead): Iggy, Livepeer, Bison Trials (acq. Coinbase '21), NEAR, Tally https://notation.vc/
Director, Business Development
2018 - 2019
Messari brings transparency to the cryptoeconomy. We want to help investors, regulators, and the public make sense of this revolutionary new asset class, and are building data tools that will drive informed decision making and investment. We believe that crypto will democratize access to information, break down data silos, and ultimately give everyone the tools to build wealth. https://messari.io/
Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy.
Raised $61,000,000.00 from FinAccelerate.
SEC Scholars Legal Program, Enforcement Division
2017 - 2017
The Commission's enforcement staff conducts investigations into possible violations of the federal securities laws, and prosecutes the Commission's civil suits in the federal courts as well as its administrative proceedings. Market Abuse Unit (Insider trading, market manipulation, etc). https://www.sec.gov/page/enforcement-section-landing
SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry.
Private Investment Funds Paralegal
2013 - 2015
Recognized as one of the most active and highly regarded investment management practices in the United States, the Paul Weiss Investment Management group represents all types of asset managers across the liquidity spectrum, including private equity funds, credit funds, hedge funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, hybrid funds and family offices. https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/transactional/investment-management